Wijnen F, Krikhaar E, den Os E
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
J Child Lang. 1994 Feb;21(1):59-83. doi: 10.1017/s0305000900008679.
In this study it is argued that the omission of closed class morphemes and of unstressed syllables within words is related to their common characteristic, viz. that they are unstressed, rhythmically weak parts of utterances. Several strands of evidence indicate that it is unlikely that children are unable to perceive these elements in the input speech. The pattern of (non)realization of unstressed syllables within content words and the class of determiners, was analysed in two Dutch children from 1;6 to 2;11. It appeared that polysyllabic words were quite generally truncated in such a way that they fitted a trochaic (strong-weak) pattern, particularly in the early samples. Some observations with respect to the (non)realization of determiners are suggestive of an influence of an SW-constraint on the realization of noun phrases. These findings support the hypothesis that in the course of utterance preparation, words and phrases are mapped onto S(W) templates. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the dissolution of the SW-constraint coincides with the acquisition of specific aspects of stress assignment in Dutch, such as quantity sensitivity.
在本研究中，有人认为封闭类语素和单词内非重读音节的省略与它们的共同特征有关，即它们是话语中不重读、节奏较弱的部分。几条证据表明，儿童不太可能无法感知输入语音中的这些元素。对两名荷兰儿童从1岁6个月到2岁11个月期间实词内非重读音节的（未）实现模式以及限定词类别进行了分析。结果发现，多音节词通常会被截断，以使其符合扬抑格（强弱）模式，尤其是在早期样本中。关于限定词（未）实现的一些观察结果表明，SW限制对名词短语的实现有影响。这些发现支持了这样一种假设，即在话语准备过程中，单词和短语会被映射到S（W）模板上。轶事证据表明，SW限制的解除与荷兰语中重音分配的特定方面（如数量敏感性）的习得同时发生。
